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Re: Why does this happen ??
- To: "Koundinya.K" <kk at ddeorg dot soft dot net>
- Subject: Re: Why does this happen ??
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Nov 2000 08:05:27 -0200
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <200011290950.PAA01391@madras.ddeorg.soft.net>
On Nov 29, 2000, "Koundinya.K" <kk@ddeorg.soft.net> wrote:
> char *s="Hello World";
> When I compile this code with gcc, the resulting binary seg
> faults.
GCC places string literals in read-only sections, unless you compile
with -fwritable-strings. If you had written `static char s[]="..."',
it wouldn't have crashed, because then s's storage would be the
string's storage, and it would be placed in read&write memory.
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